Everyone is welcome to attend this session to learn about the PDF Association’s services and support for its members.

We can and must do better if PDF is to remain reliable, portable, and relevant – and thus grow into the future for all its stakeholders. And now, we have that chance…

At Boeing, the company is fully engaged in a digital transformation that seeks to redefine how aerospace products are defined, developed, produced, and serviced.  We will examine PDF use in Boeing and share thoughts on its role relative to digital … Read more

A survey of the major developments at “the ISO table” since the last in-person event in 2019. This session can help attendees to identify other PDF Days Europe 2020 sessions pertaining to specific technologies. This PDF Association session is presented … Read more

Email is one of the most ubiquitous and widely disseminated, and also one of the least preserved and difficult to manage, of electronic document formats.  While the  preservation community has developed email-specific tools and preservation pathways, PDF provides a new … Read more

This is a follow-on talk from our 2021 PDF Days presentation on the File Observatory. Our team built the File Observatory to support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s SafeDocs program by enabling parser developers to understand features of PDFs in … Read more

This presentation will summarize last year’s introduction and adaption of PDF/R and show how it fits into the TWAIN Working Group’s vision of mobile and de-centralized cloud based image capture. It will provide an outlook of the work in progress … Read more

In an update to his 2018 presentation on “PDF statistics”, PDF Association CEO Duff Johnson reviews some key stats about PDF’s utilization, popular awareness and reliance on the format.

Let our CTO walk you through the many and various free technical resources provided by the PDF Association.

ISO 32005 is a new Technical Standard from WG9 (for which I am the ISO Project Leader) aimed at aligning and unifying the capabilities of the PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0 tagset.  This talk will introduce this concept and how … Read more

Almost 10 years ago, ZUGFeRD 1.0, the first invoice data format based on the public standards UN/CEFACT CII and PDF/A-3, was published. The stated intention was to digitize invoice exchange and make the transition from paper to data for SMEs … Read more

Smarter contracts and blockchain technologies are already transforming business processes across commercial, legal and financial sectors and yet “We still approach contracts in much the same way as we have done for centuries. Decades old software such as PDF and … Read more

When working with documents associated with a business process, often many actions are performed on and with a document. Splitting the document, adding and removing pages, changing metadata, extracting business related information. There are many different actions, that are relevant … Read more

Document understanding is a constantly addressed topic and has become on top of the scene these last years with Deep Learning and NLP evolution. The PDF format is by nature unstructured, which implies sophisticated processes to extract and qualify information … Read more

The RichMedia Annotation has been embraced by the 3D PDF community for moving forward with PDF 2.0; But exploiting the potential for Audio and Video RichMedia Content has proven more challenging.  We will discuss the several generations of embedded multimedia … Read more

Optimizing PDFs to contain just the right amount of structural information can sometimes be quite challenging. We would like to present autopsies of some of the more gruesome PDF Optimization issues that we’ve encountered. Exact case studies TBD, but potentially … Read more

The first Apple iPhone (1st generation), which was termed ‘revolutionary’ was released in 2007 with the slogan ‘Apple reinvents the phone’. While many of us are using Apple iPhones now, it is doubtful that anyone is using the 1st generation … Read more

Mit den Bordmitteln von Microsoft Office oder LibreOffice ist die Erstellung von vollständig barrierefreie PDF-Dokumente nach WCAG oder PDF/UA nach wie vor nicht möglich. Mit jeder neuen Programmversion gibt es aber Kleinigkeiten, die sich verbessert haben. Der Vortrag (in deutscher … Read more

France had one of the most restrictive laws during the pandemic. Long before vaccine passports were available, people had to fill out, sign, and carry certificates when they left their homes. In addition, while PDF was the electronic file format … Read more

PDF has long become the de facto format for exchanging print-oriented documents on the Web, and for a good reason: it works, and reliably so! However, as the lowest common denominator it is an end-of-line format, and is under constant … Read more